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The Pandemic We Did Not Name
Memo to the World
Humanity is drowning in misery. We seek therapists, medication, and distraction — but these are only responses to symptoms, not cures for the cause. The root issue isn’t just within individuals. It’s the world itself — fractured, exhausted, and morally starved. We are dead to the heart while living.
How can we measure wellness in a society that is fundamentally unwell?
How can we speak of healing when we continue to breathe in systems designed to harm?
We’re not solving the core issue — we’re avoiding it.
The real illness is not personal. It’s structural. It’s existential.
This is why stories so often end in tragedy: … because the world itself is out of alignment.
So what now? What can be done?
It’s time we stopped fixing people just to fit them back into a broken machine.
Let’s start asking:
What does a healthy world even look like?
And how do we begin to build it?
Humanity keeps applying band-aids to bullet wounds, hoping therapy, routines, or pills alone will fix what is fundamentally a systemic collapse — moral, societal, and ecological. Therapists help individuals cope, but they…